2theadvocate.com - 11/10/2008
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Burn baby burn, or more accurately, burn Nick burn. That was the mantra of about 100 to 150 LSU fans at a pre-football game rally Friday night when Nick Saban s effigy was burned in the parking lot of a condominium complex just off of State Street. The crowd chanted and cheered as a woman in a ...
secfootballblogger.com - 11/6/2008
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secfootballblogger.com —
This is Saban’s first game back in Death
Valley. This game means a ton for the BCS....
ESPN’s Gameday Crew is going to be there. Alabama is ranked #1 for the first time in over a decade. LSU has to beat Alabama to stay in the SEC West contention. This game is huge, just like it was last year.
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Who will win the LSU and Alabama Game
zonqsports.com - 11/6/2008
sports.espn.go.com - 11/7/2008
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Gimme an F... ! When Alabama rolls into
Baton Rouge, LSU fans will have a hard time...
deciding which is more fun: showering the Tigers with love - or raining hate on Nick Saban. by Wright Thompson [ Ed's note: For a story on appreciating Nick Saban by ...
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ESPN The Magazine: Hating Nick Saban - ESPN The Magazine
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LSU fans shoots, kills two Alabama fans after Tiger loss
Dr. Saturday —
The rest of the country consistently underestimates the gut level passion of fans in the SEC. It's not that the SEC is better -- you can't prove that -- but its partisans do care more. Way, way more, and you can prove that: They chant harder, they bite harder, they burn former coaches in effigy (right, prior to Saturday's Alabama-LSU game) and sometimes, tragically, they start shooting:
An Escambia County (Alabama) couple died Saturday after an argument over the Alabama/LSU football game ended in shotgun blasts, according ...
Alabama fan shoots, kills LSU fan and wife after Tiger loss
Dr. Saturday —
The rest of the country consistently underestimates the gut level passion of fans in the SEC. It's not that the SEC is better -- you can't prove that -- but its partisans do care more. Way, way more, and you can prove that: They chant harder, they bite harder, they burn former coaches in effigy (right, prior to Saturday's Alabama-LSU game) and sometimes, tragically, they start shooting:
An Escambia County (Alabama) couple died Saturday after an argument over the Alabama/LSU football game ended in shotgun blasts, according ...
Alabama Fan Goes In “Shotgun Formation”, 2 Dead
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
Honestly, it’s not even surprising, not nearly as much as it ought to be. When you get a rivalry that’s doused in hatefuel, then literally set ablaze , it doesn’t end with the football game. And while the logical endgame (see: murder) is certainly rare, “rare” is a whole lot more tragic than “never,” and we can tack two more marks onto “rare” today after ...
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